6501To James Madison from Robert Patterson, 1 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have now the honour of laying before you a Report of the operations of the Mint, for the last twelve months. From the Treasurer’s statement of the coinage, herewith transmitted, it will appear, that during that period, there have been struck and issued— In gold coins, 95,428 pieces, amounting to $477,140 In silver coins, 1,241,903 pieces, amounting to 620,951 80/100 In copper coins, 418,000...
6502To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 1 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
I belong to the American Army and with the ardent feelings of the soldier I join a devout solicitude for my Countrys Interest and glory, while with Spartan disinterestedness I take the liberty of hinting to your superior judgment the outlines of a plan to reduce the Canades in one campaign, & thereby retrieve the waining honor of our Arms, I entreat you Sir, not to deem it disrespectful in me...
6503To James Madison from Mason Locke Weems, 1 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
I once had the honor to hear your Excellency express much surprise that “Leonidas” had never been reprinted in this country. If your Excellency coud favor me with a manuscript expression of this sentiment, as a motto to a Subscription paper, I wd instantly set about reprinting that Divine poem which bids so fair to revive among us the Old Spartan Love of Liberty & Country. I feel happy in the...
6504To James Madison from Nicholas Fitzhugh and Others, 1 January 1814 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Nicholas Fitzhugh and Others. 1 January 1814, Alexandria. “The office of Judge of the Orphans Court for the County of Alexandria having become vacant by the death of Coll. George Gilpin, we beg leave respectfully to recommend Coll. Francis Peyton as well qualified to fill that office.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Peyton.” 1 p.; signed by Fitzhugh, John McKinney, Robert...
6505Thomas Jefferson to John E. Hall, 1 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 15. came during a long absence of mine from this place , which has occasioned this delay of the answer. the MS. notes in my pamphlet on the Batture, were only corrections of the press, I believe; for I have not a copy of it. these I inserted in most of the copies I sent out, but not in all of them; and I have no others to add. it was printed by mr Serjeant in N. York , who...
6506Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 1 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I had hoped, when I retired from the business of the world, that I should have been permitted to pass the evening of life in tranquility, undisturbed by the peltings and passions of which the public papers are the vehicles. I see however that I have been dragged into the newspapers by the infidelity of one with whom I was formerly intimate, but who has abandoned the American principles out of...
6507Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt, 1 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter dated Oct. 26. but I presume for Nov. 26. came here during my absence in Bedford in December, and this is the first moment I have been able to reply to it. I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information of the account of Farrel & Jones against mr Eppes . I do not know that I ever saw it, nor had I any information ever from him respecting it. I remember only to have...
6508To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1813 (Adams Papers)
Although I am not perfectlÿ free from head-ache a fixed oppression in the forehead which leaves a disagreable Stupor, and without whose removal I shall be unable to return to my charge with usual alacrity, I got in so far the better of it, that I take up mÿ pen and I hope, ere long it shall again be in mÿ power to expel everÿ gloomÿ thought by plunging head long in Philosophical enquiries:...
6509Exegesis of Genesis, Chapter 1, Verse 3 [c. 1813] (Jay Papers)
Men have universally and in all Ages agreed and concurred in ascribing Light to the Instrumentality of the Sun Moon and Stars, and yet Moses assures us that Light was made before any of those Luminaries were created— How is this contradictory apparent contradiction to be reconciled to Truth? I never doubted the Fact as asserted by Moses— the Difficulty was how to account for it— If a...
6510Memorandum Books, 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 5. Hhd. exp. 1. 6. Recd. a pr. of millstones 4 f. 1.I. diam. from the blue ridge. Jerem. Yancey for the stone 5.